Come again?

Context is everything, at least in some contexts. Allow me to explain. I am the first member of the family to rise each morning. Most days, I sit quietly in a dark room in “the thinking chair”. Conjure up images of the red armchair from Blues Clues if you must, but you would digress. Anyway, [...]

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Face the truth

When he arrived, the king asked him, “Micaiah, shall we go to war against Ramoth Gilead, or not?” “Attack and be victorious,” he answered, “for the Lord will give it into the king’s hand.” The king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear to tell me nothing but the truth in [...]

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“Are you sure it isn’t time for a colorful metaphor?”

You have to love Mr. Spock. You may not always understand him, but you have to love him. Please? I just returned from whirlwind tour of the psyche, known to some as a management retreat, where an eclectic collection of 15 folks worked to learn and share how they are wired, why they think how [...]

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A Different Kind of Truth

Stay with me on this one. I confess, I say that more often these days. Little Frauline, aka the Hankmeister, accompanied me a week ago tomorrow night to a bucket list event. As the music of my youth blasted from the stage, I may have been Standing on Top of the World, for a Little [...]

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“You may be right…”

“I may be crazy; but, it just might be a lunatic you’re looking for.” This quote from the lyric vault of Billy Joel has been running thru my mind lately. Just a day or two back, a friend and colleague said “I read some of you’re stuff, and you are really out there”. Then, yesterday, [...]

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Unresolved

I get it, I think. Maybe I don’t get it. Am I talking about living the Life, or the movie Little Frau and I just watched? Yes. Jazz doesn’t resolve. Or does it? Life doesn’t resolve, or does it? That is the point. That is the premise. Knowing that, and accepting it, creates confusion and [...]

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The Ugly American

I was “away from home” ever so briefly a week or so back. The colleagues I was due to meet and work with my first full morning abroad had yet to arrive, and given the beauty of the spring morning, I went out for a brief walk. As I often do when traveling, I was [...]

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Hidden From View

Scars are funny things. Do you see the one in this picture? I’ve been up and down this street a number of times in recent years, but it was not until I went last night into the center structure with the gray plaster facade and saw the courtyard behind it that things didn’t match up [...]

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Fool’s names and fool’s faces…

…always seen in public places. I have this friend, and a pretty good one at that, who has been known to repeat this phrase a time or two. Originally spoken in reference to wanted posters in Post Offices, news blotters, front pages, and the like, I think said friend might have been talking about the [...]

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Duty Free?

Should we offer him thousands of rams and ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Should we sacrifice our firstborn children to pay for our sins? No, O people, the LORD has told you what is good, and this is what he requires of you: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk [...]

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